Do what Reboot suggested: Take the hard drive out and put a new one in or put that one in another mac or case and install that way. Probably easiest to just put a new one in. Hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays. Just make sure you get the right type...probably IDE drive.

Do what Reboot suggested: Take the hard drive out and put a new one in or put that one in another mac or case and install that way. Probably easiest to just put a new one in. Hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays. Just make sure you get the right type...probably IDE drive.

It didnt even give me the opportunity to start up in Safe Mode. I would still get the error message even holding down the Shift key. I tried something else which was resetting the PRAM and NVRAM. It doesn't really look like it did anything though.

My first suspicion is bad RAM, it will cause the "kernel panics" you're seeing. Only way to check since you can't boot the machine is to swap out the RAM chips, they're PC100, or do the drive swap thing we mentioned.

Heck, you can get a G3 iMac for cheaper than a new HD! I say he should toss that one and get another one.

James, where are you located?

I live in the Boston area. Anyway, I don't even care about loading 10.4 at this point. It has nothing to do with the RAM or hard drive. Basically, I loaded that xpostfacto on my Mac and I had the xpostfacto reboot my machine but I clicked an option from L2 to L3 cache and then it crashed. So at this point, I just want to get the operating system back, which was 10.3.9. So what can I do?

Erase (reformat) and reinstall 10.3. I'm assuming that there is no L3 cache on that machine, hence the crash at startup. Do you have a 10.3 install disk that you can boot up from? If you can get the options from xpostfacto to come up, maybe changing it back to L2 will remedy the problem. Otherwise, you are back to the "nuclear" option.

Xplain's use of MacNews, AppleCentral and AppleExpo are not affiliated with Apple, Inc. MacTech is a registered trademark of Xplain Corporation. AppleCentral, MacNews, Xplain, "The journal of Apple technology", Apple Expo, Explain It, MacDev, MacDev-1, THINK Reference, NetProfessional, MacTech Central, MacTech Domains, MacForge, and the MacTutorMan are trademarks or service marks of Xplain Corp. Sprocket is a registered trademark of eSprocket Corp. Other trademarks and copyrights appearing in this printing or software remain the property of their respective holders.

All contents are Copyright 1984-2010 by Xplain Corporation. All rights reserved. Theme designed by Icreon.